Happy Mother's Day! Baby Shower in a Box! For my far away friend!

Happy Mother's Day to all you amazing mothers!!!! Besides having a bouncing baby yourself, there is nothing better than your dear friend having a SECOND addition to her family! There is also nothing more heart tugging and frustrating than having that friend live on the other side of the country, much to far for this Mommy's finances to go visit. So! I did the best thing I could think of to do ... I made and sent her a Baby Shower in a Box!!!

 

 

My Favorite {CTMH} Things" Blog Hop! Valentine/love theme!!!

Our Playing With Paper team is sharing artwork featuring some of our favorite products from CTMH. If you have come here from Stephanie Chumbley's blog, then you are on the right path.

Today I have created Project Life cards using Close To My Heart's beautiful stamps! I love using our  high quality supplies to make project life cards! I can make lots of cards in advance and I can personalize my cards for what is going on in my pictures. Project life is a different way of scrapbooking. To do the Project life concept you just make 6"x4" cards and 3"x4" cards for filler cards and journal cards. I use Close To My Heart's page protectors that are made for six 6"x4" pictures. I slide two 3"x4" into one spot (or one 6"x4") and I fill all the spots with pictures or the cards. This look is much quicker than making one hole 12"x12" page or only a few pictures! You get more pictures and journaling in less space in less time. This is also much cheaper since you use less supplies! These are mainly all journal cards but some can be used as filler cards.

My All You Can Make Christmas Card Workshop!

 I wanted to share the easy and yet cute cards that made up my half of the 15 cards that everyone made at my friend's and my "All You Can Make Christmas Card Workshop"! Look out for my next workshop because I will have them available to ship to anyone who isn't local or who can't make the meeting!

 

These two you saw earlier on my team's blog hop. :-) Wasn't that nice!?! All those awesome projects from all those different creative people! I love our Monthly Blog Hops!

 

 

 

My apologies for the blue card being partially covered. It does show the amazingly easy adhesive sparkle ribbon used to make an adorable little bow on this card!

 

   


The stamping of the background on this  card does take less time if you space them out a little more but I like the look when they are tightly stamped, and wanted to show it that way.

 

 

 

 I like the sparkles on one side of the sentiment instead of the usual four corners. It is still more simple than I'm use. With there being allot of first time crafters coming to that workshop it worked well though.

 

The picture doesn't show it but I did add ink to the edges of the sentiment to this one to finish it off. If it was for me I think I would have added some twine to this one.

This was the first time I had done the three layered stamping technique! I loved it! I'm not sure if I'll be doing it for another workshop but I love the way it turns out!

I also can not get over how this very simple card, looks so complete with only a tie in a tiny bit of ribbon added to it!!! I will never underestimate the power of ribbon again! lol



 

I had some extras of each card after the workshop...so what to do with plenty of copies of cards? So these 5 of the 8 I made are being sold in my etsy shop as a set! :-) You can check out my Etsy shop and see if there is anything that interests you (there are very few listings currently compared to what all things and occasions I can do) or you can just message me and ask about a custom order (I hope that you will ask about anything you are interested in having made that you do not see)!

 

All these cards except for the blue one was made with the Pear and Partridge paper pack, the October stamp of the month, and the stamp set that came with the Pear and Partridge card workshop on the go. Shop with me here for your supplies to make either simple or unique creations! I hope you liked these simpler easier cards that take less time during this busy season and less still look adorable!



"Remember" Avonlea two page set!

These pages are made with the Avonlea paper pack from Close To My Heart. The other CTMH products I used were: Parlor Velvet Rub-Ons, Opaques Mocha Adhesive Gems, My Acrylix Avonlea Workshop Stamp Set, and Avonlea Complements Canvas Shapes.
If you want your own CTMH supplies then check out my consultant page here.

 

This is the first time I made these pinwheels and wanted to give you a better look. :-)

This page set can be found in my Etsy Shop here.

Double challenge T Card!

 

This card was made for two separate blog challenges! The template matches the template for the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge. The Heart 2 Heart Challenge this week is to create something with a back to school theme for students or teachers. So my card has a T on it for a note to a teacher or for a Thank you to a teacher.

This card was made using the CTMH Scholastic paper pack. If you are interested in getting your own high quality supplies go here. If you are interested in getting this card made by me then check out my Esty shop here.  Are you on Facebook? Check out my Facebook page here.

Avonlea supplies used on card!

 

This card is made using the Close To My Heart supplies from the Avonlea themed items. If you are interested in getting this card made by me then check out my Esty shop.

 

 

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 Close up of the canvas flower. There is a circle of paper with an opaque mocha adhesive gem as the center.

 

These are the Close To My Heart supplies used to make this card. The products are: Avonlea Paper Packet, Avonlea Complements Canvas Shapes, Opaques Mocha Adhesive Gems, My Acrylix Avonlea Workshop Stamp Set, Chocolate Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad, and one of the My Acrylix Blocks.
If you are interested in getting your own high quality supplies shop here.

Family Scrapbook Pages with CTMH Supplies!

 

 

 Family Scrapbook Page from Close To My Heart Products! I used Avonlea paper packet, Avonlea Complements Canvas Shapes, Opaques Mocha Adhesive Gems, and Chocolate Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad from CTMH. The squares are 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" each. The dark brown  large areas are 4' x 6" and 4" x 5". These can be used for photos and/or journaling.

 

 Get your own Avonlea paper packet, Avonlea Complements Canvas Shapes, Opaques Mocha Adhesive Gems, Chocolate Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad, and more here.

Want these premade scrapbook pages? Get them from my Etsy
Shop here.

First Creation using the wonderful Close To My Heart supplies!

The Recipe/Photo Box and the Flirty paper packet that was used to decorate it in, can be found at my consultant page here. I also used the Opaques Mocha Adhesive Gems in the center of the flower and on two corners of the title. The flower was cut out of this adorable paper using my Cricut. I then hand bent it to pop up it's petals a little.

If you would like the supplies to make this or something like it yourself then my consultant page is where you want to go. If you want a custom recipe/photo box made by me, then you want to message me and check out my Etsy shop here.